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I wrote this elsewhere as a footnote in another essay (http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf), but since it islikely to get overlooked, I have pulled it out and turned it into itsown short paper for those who might be interested. The debatebetween Doug Wilson and Jim Jordan over regeneration pits two menwhom I respect and from whom I have Read more

Christian Nationalism is not an historical oddity. It’s been the historical norm for most of church history for most of the church. A nation that thinks it can be areligious, that thinks it can divorce religion from culture and politics, is the historical oddity. Secularism is the historical oddity. An atheistic public square has never Read more

If speech is violence, then violence is a justified response to speech.  — We are now in polarized world. C. S. Lewis explained what is happening in our culture: “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family—anything you like—at a given point in its history, you always find that there was Read more

Classical liberalism, at least the America version of it, was very illiberal by the standards of modern liberalism. If America was founded as a classically liberal nation, consider all the evidence of our Christian founding: *The Mayflower Compact was explicitly Christian in character and content * 75% of those who declared independence were of Puritan Read more

[This is a portion of an email that went out to the TPC congregation on 10/1/25.] TPC family, This is a longer than usual “updates” email, but there are several essential items to share this week: First, make plans to attend the congregational meeting after worship on October 19. This might be the most important congregational meeting we Read more